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BY the viscosity or internal friction of a gas is meant the resistance it offers to the gliding of one portion over another. In a paper read before the British Association in 1859 Maxwell2 presented the remarkable result that on theoretical grounds the coefficient of friction, or the viscosity, should be independent of the density of the gas, although at the same time he stated that the only experiments he had met with on the subject did not seem to confirm his views.
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Abstract of a paper read before the Royal Society, February 17, 1881 by William Crookes, F.R.S.
Phil. Mag., 4th ser. vol xix. p. 31.
Phil. Trans. 1866, part i, p. 249.
Philosophical Magazine, vol. xlviii. p. 110, August, 1874.
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On the Viscosity of Gases at High Exhaustions 1 . Nature 23, 421–423 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023421a0
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